In fiction, you find thoughtful understanding unshockable Best Friends who are only too happy to listen to this sort of thing at length, in detail, without using the information against you at a later date - and, crucially, without immediately using words like 'eeew,' or 'weird.'

If such references shock us unshockable citizens who have a certain uneasiness about our nation having legitimated by legislative act a couple of years ago an act which every kind of international law and Convention we can think of and our own tradition has condemned, worse was to come.